English Riddles(英语谜语)

English Riddles（英语谜语）
1.What is smaller than an insect’s mouth?
2.What season is the most dangerous one?
3.What’s too much for me,just right for two,but nothing at? all for three?
4.On what day of a year do soldiers start wars in history?
5.How many feet are in a yard?
6.What person tries to make others smile most of the time?
7.From what number can one take half and leave nothing?
8.What has hands but no feet，a face but no eyes，tells but does not talk?
9.How many months have 28 days?
10.Which horses have six legs?
11.Why don’t babies need glasses?
12.What do you drop when you need it and take back when you don’t.
13.What’s the difference between a monkey and a flea(跳蚤)
14.What is black when it is clean and white when it is dirty?
15.What 5-letter word has six left when you take 2 letters away?
16.What is the center of gravity?
17.What never asks questions but always gets answers?
18.When Columbus discovered America，where did he stand?
19.What is "four feet on four feet waiting for four feet?
20.When the boy fell into the water，what’s the first thing he did?
21.Who isn’t your sister and isn’t your brother，but is still a child
of your mother and father?
22.What has teeth but can’t eat?
23.What kind of man can raise things without lifting them?
24.Which candle burns longer: a black one or a white one?
25.Why does a cook wear a high，white hat?
26.Can you name five days of the week without saying: Monday，
Tuesday，Wednesday，Thursday，Friday?
27.What kind of dog never can bite and bark?
28.What has a soft bed but never sleeps，a big mouth? but never speaks?
29.Four girls have a basket with four apples in it. How can you divide the apples so that each girl gets a whole apple and one still remains in the basket?
30.Which eight-letter word has one letter in it?
31.Three men were under one umbrella，but none of them got
wet.How do they do it?
32.Where does afternoon always come before morning?
33.How much earth can you take from a hole 2 feet long，2 feet wide and 2 feet deep?
34.What rises in the morning and waves all day?
35.What is pronounced like one letter，written with three letters，
and belongs to all animals?
36.Why can you tell clocks are shy?
37.What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
38.What cannot be seen but only heard，and will not speak unless
spoken to?
39.What word can you make shorter by adding two letters to it?
40.What part of a clock is always old?
41.What person does every man take his hat off to?
42.What can you swallow than can also swallow you?
43.Which three letters can frighten a thief away?
44.What appears once in every minute，twice in every moment，
but not once in thousand years?
45.What would you say if you saw a ghost(鬼)?
46.Which is the left side of a cake?
47.A police saw a truck driver going the wrong down a one - way
street，but paid no attention to him. Why ?
48.Where should the milk be best stored ?
49.What is the hardest thing about learning to ride a bicycle?
50.What always has one eye open but can’t see?
51.What goes all over the house，but touches nothing?
52.What belongs only to you and yet is used more by others than
by yourself?
53.Which letter of the alphabet separates Europe from Africa?
54.Why is a river rich?
55.I have cities but no houses，forests but no trees; rivers but
without water; what am I?
56.A man jumped from a plane，but there was nothing wrong with
him. Do you know why?
57.In a train，a woman saw other peoples’ faces were dirty. What
would she do，do you know?
58.Why did John say he didn’t know where the sun was?
59.Where does a person stay for the longest time in his life?
60.Why does Tom’s mother go to work by plane every day?
61.What man can not live inside a house?
62.What match can’t be put in a match box?
63.What is it，which will tomorrow and was be yesterday?
64.What has many teeth but never uses them for eating?
65.The more you take away，the bigger I become. What am I?
66.What is that which has no leg but a body and a long neck?
67.What part of London is in Brazil?
68.What is that you ought to keep after you give it to somebody else?
69.When is it correct to say "I is"?
70.What is that which has a mouth, but never speaks, and a bed,
but never sleeps in it?
71.What two things can’t you have for breakfast?
72.What do most gardeners not like to grow?
73.If a band plays in a thunderstorm，who is most likely to? get hit
by lightening?
74.If you were to throw a white stone into? the? Red? Sea, what
would it become?
75.How many sweets can you put into an empty bag?
76.How can you leave the room with two legs and return with six legs?
77.How could you fall off a twenty-foot ladder and not get hurt?
78.I unwrapped a lump of sugar and put it in my coffee. The sugar
didn’t get wet. Why ?
79.If it takes three and a half minutes to boil one egg，how long
does it take to boil four eggs?
80.If three birds are sitting on a fence and you shoot and kill one
of them，how many will be left?
81.When is your uncle’s sister not your aunt?
82.Mrs.Smith has nine children，half of them are girls. How? can
this be true?
83.Where? can you never tell the truth?
84.What goes over the fields all day，and sits in the cupboard all night.
85.What walks around all day and lies under the bed at night with
its tongue hanging out?
86.How many cheese sandwiches can you eat on an empty stomach?
87.When will a net hold water?
88.Why is a room full of married couples empty?
89.What table has no leg?
90.What tables grow in the fields?
91.Which American man has had the largest family?
92.A hungry donkey was tied to a rope eight feet long. About thirty feet away there was a basket of fresh carrots. The donkey wanted to eat those carrots. How did he reach them?
93.What can you hold in your left hand，but not in your right hand?
94.I have seven letters.
The first two stand for a boy.
The first three stand for a girl.
The first four stand for a brave boy.
95.Why does a man’s hair become grey before his moustaches?
96.Why are people close to their mothers instead of their fathers?
97.Where can you easily put your right hand，but can never put
your left hand?
98.What question can never get answer "YES."?
99.What is the beginning of everything，also the end of life? 100.Mary had a big dog，and I had a smaller one. One day，the two dogs raced to see which ran faster. The dogs were soon tired out. Finally，my dog won the 10-mile race. Now which dog had more sweat on its body?
101. What letter is a body of water?
102. What is it that found in the every center of America and Australia? 103. Why is a river rich?
104. Which letter is very useful to a deaf woman?
105. Which runs faster, heat or cold? Why?
106.下面是一道经典的英语填空题，注意所有空格均为同一个单词：____ is greater than God.____ is more evil than the Devil.The poor need ____.The rich have ____.If you eat ____, you will die.
107. What number should replace(代替)the question mark?
A VIATOR=6 FIXTURE=9 WIZARD=1 DIVERSE=?
( ) 108. What’s the Chinese for “six of one and half a dozen of the other?”
A. 六分之一
B. 人云亦云
C.半斤八两
D.见一面分一半( ) 109. What three letters turn a girl into a woman?
A.SUN
B. DAB
C. EYE
D.AGE
( ) 110. We don’t want it. It’s “a white elephant.” What is it?
A. 一件无用而累的东西
B.一头白象
C. 白给的东西
D. 白色陷阱
( ) 111.What’s too much for two and just right for one?
A. Time
B. A secret
C. friend
D. A room
( ) 112. What’s the Chinese for “talk big”?
A. 吹牛
B. 说谎话
C.骂人
D.很大
( ) 113. I know that from A to Z.
A.从A到I
B.从头到尾
C.字母表
D.距离很远
( ) 114. You can’t do it. You can sue to Ann for help.
A. ask
B. think
C. find
D. give
( ) 115.What’s that? That’s a lily I like it very much.
A. girl’s name
B. flower
C. picture
D. cup
116.What is heavier in summer than in winter？
117.What clothing is always sad？
118.How many legs do horses have？
119. My brother is two years younger than I. My sister is four years younger than my brother. My mother was 20 years old when i was born. In this year the average age of our four is
38.Can you tell me how old each of our four is?
I am___.My brother ___.My sister is____.My mother is______. 120. From what number can you take half and leave nothing? 121.What do tiger have that no other animals have?
122.What fruit is never found singly?
123.What stays hot even if put it in a fridge?
124.Why does time fly?
125.Why is the letter E so important?
126.How can you make 6 out of three 7's?
127.What has keys but no doors?
128.What kind of table has no legs?
129.What letter is a question?
130.Can you name the capital of every state in the U.S. in ten seconds?
131.What is it that when one lost ,you can never find again ? 132.What is it that is always coming ,but never arrives?
133. From what number can you take half and leave nothing? 134.What two word have thousands of letters in them?
135.What 5-letter word has 6 left when you take 2 letters away? 136.What kind of dog never bite?
137.Where does afternoon always come before morning?
138.What is pronounced like one letter, written with three letters, and belongs to all animals
139.What number gets bigger when you turn it upside down? 140. What is smaller t han an insect’s mouth?
141.What two letters means "all right"?
142.What kind of animal wears big black glasses?
143.this is Tom's mother’s only brother's only sister's only child. Who is he?
144.At what temperature does water freeze?
145.In which country is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
146.Which does not have two legs ?
147.“She's really green." means:-------
148.Which letter can drink?
149.Which month has 28 days?
150.What room has no walls, no doors, no windows and no one to live in?
151. What table is in the field?
152. What is the only thing you can break when you say its name? 153. What is there in your house that ought to be looked into? 154. What is that which you have never seen, heard or felt, which never existed and still has a name?
155. What changes a pear into a pearl?
156. What question can never be answered by 'Yes'?
157. What ship has two mates but no captain?
158. What is the most difficult key to turn?
159. Where can you always find money?
160. What is the surest way to double your money?
161. Where does afternoon come before morning in the world? 162. What is the smallest bridge in the world?
163. What letter makes a road broad?
164. What letter sounds like a vegetable?
165. Why is a pig the most unusual animal in the world?
166. What match can't be put in a match-box?
167. When do 2 and 2 make more than 4?
168. I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, rivers without water. What am I?
169. I am something that has teeth but can't eat. What am I? 170. What is a sick man a contradiction?
171. Will liars be honest after they die?
172. What always goes up and never goes down?
173. Why did the boy make his dog sit in the sun?
174. A deer has no eyes. what is it name?
175. My names begin with W and end with E. I am the largest animal in the world and I live in the sea. I have beautiful blue skin.
And no part of my body is thin.I'm not a fish but I breathe air.I don't have much hair . Men sometimes want to catch me for my body, I have huge fins I don't have feet. What am I ?I am......。